🩵Choosing You (The Donovans: Sweetbriar Ridge 6) by Samantha Chase-review tour🩵
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 20, 2025
hey’ve been in an intimate relationship for three years.
They’ve just never met.
Will Campbell has been in an interesting relationship for the last three years—with a woman he doesn’t know. Every time he’s worked the kissing booth at a Sweetbriar Ridge festival, he’s been kissed by the same mysterious woman. It’s the same thing every time—a steamy kiss that leaves you wanting more and then a disappearing act. But this year? He vows to stop her and convince her to do more than just kiss and run.
Being mysterious is fun, but Sloane Donovan is tired of the kiss and run game she’s been playing for years. It might have all started as a dare, but now she wants more. Now that her sister is Sweetbriar Ridge’s newest resident, she has even more reasons to visit, and she vows that at the next festival she won’t run away after the kiss. But maybe she doesn’t have to wait until a festival to find the sexy man who kisses like a dream. Maybe she can just drive around Sweetbriar Ridge until she finds him.
With the next festival on the horizon, Will has a plan. But that plan goes out the window when he unexpectedly runs into his mystery woman. This time, he’s determined not to let her get away, so he does the only thing he can think of—kiss her. And he keeps kissing, hoping she’ll choose to give them a real chance.
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REVIEW:CHOOSING YOU is the sixth instalment in Samantha Chase’s contemporary, adult THE DONOVANS: SWEETBRIAR RIDGE romance series, a spin off from the author’s THE DONOVANS. This is social media manager Sloane Donovan, and auto mechanic Will Campbell’s story line. CHOOSING YOU can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual omniscient third person perspectives (Sloane and Will) CHOOSING YOU follows the building romance and relationship between Sloane and Will. For approximately three years, Will Campbell has searched for the woman he met and has kissed in the kissing booth at Sweetbriar Ridge Festival but the mystery woman constantly kisses and runs. Having checked in with all of the people and town gossips of Sweetbriar Ridge, no one was able to help in locating the mystery woman but a chance drive by finds Will coming face to face with the woman who has stolen his heart. Sloane Donovan is playing a game of kiss and tag but refuses to settle down and reveal the truth. Sloane’s large extended family lives and works in Sweetbriar Ridge but Sloane has remained in Florida, hoping for business success until falling for a man she meets a few times per year. Without knowing one another’s names, Will continues to search until the day Sloane returns to Sweetbriar Ridge.
The world building follows the building relationship between Will and Sloane, as each struggles with their place in the world. Will struggles with the gossip and rumor mill perpetuated by the family he believes controls the town; and Sloane’s hatred of everything cars, threatens her ability to open to heart. Having watched her siblings and cousins find love and family, Sloane battles between head and heart, refusing to relive the rejection she has felt all of her life.
The relationship between Sloane and Will begins at a kissing booth, and continues off and on for close to three years. Never knowing one another’s names, Will is desperate enough to go in search of the woman with whom he will fall in love, a woman who apparently does not want to be caught. There are no $ex scenes, everything is implied.
Once again, there is a large ensemble cast of quirky and colorful secondary and supporting characters most of whom are related to the Donovan Dynasty, and have met in the previous instalments.
CHOOSING YOU is a story of family and friendships, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is spirited and engaging; the romance is sweet; the characters are sassy.
Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Loving You
Teasing You
Wanting You
Seeing You
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Reviewed by Sandy
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Samantha Chase is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller of contemporary romance that’s hotter than sweet, sweeter than hot. She released her debut novel in 2011 and currently has more than seventy titles under her belt – including THE CHRISTMAS COTTAGE which was a Hallmark Christmas movie in 2017! She’s a Disney enthusiast who still happily listens to 80’s rock. When she’s not working on a new story, she spends her time reading romances, playing way too many games of Solitaire on Facebook, wearing a tiara while playing with her sassy pug Maylene…oh, and spending time with her husband of 30 years and their two sons in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
